Supporting youth protection workers to support families

While many are calling for more flexible prevention focused approaches, youth protection workers in Quebec are grappling with dwindling resources and risk aversive systems that places them, and the children, families, and communities they serve in increasingly difficult positions. This pressing need for transformation has recently been tragically underscored by the death by suicide of two youth protection workers. In the letter to the McGill social work community, MSW student Vanessa Finley-Roy asks us to reflect on these tragic deaths and to take action for “change on a wider scale”.

This sentiment echoes two recent Op-Ed articles from Professor Delphine Collin-Vezina.